Fact-Checking Donald Trump’s Statements on Vaccines
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TL;DR
- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 10.
- The order seeks to change the childhood vaccine schedule.
- It proposes reducing universally recommended immunizations from 17 to 11 diseases.
- Vaccinations for rotavirus, hepatitis A and B, and meningococcal meningitis are among those targeted for change.
- These vaccines may become recommended only for high-risk groups or subject to shared clinical decision-making.